We study the expressiveness and performance of full-text search languages. Our main motivation is to provide a formal basis for comparing such languages and to develop a model for...
— One of the most substantial ways to protect users’ sensitive information is encryption. This paper is about the keyword index search system on encrypted documents. It has bee...
Hyun-A Park, Bum Han Kim, Dong Hoon Lee, Yon Dohn ...
The global search properties of heuristic search algorithms are not well understood. In this paper, we introduce a new metric, mobility, that quantifies the dispersion of local o...
Monte Lunacek, L. Darrell Whitley, James N. Knight
Search engines are key components in the online world and the choice of search engine is an important determinant of the user experience. In this work we seek to model user behavio...
Dynamic web applications such as mashups need efficient access to web data that is only accessible via entity search engines (e.g. product or publication search engines). However,...